Category: Reviews
Clairvoyance – Chasm Of Immurement Review
To cut straight to the chase, Clairvoyance’s Chasm of Immurement is riff-heavy Polish death / doom—emphasis on death—and it rules. It is possible to be death / doom—emphasis on doom—and still rule, of course. But …
Abhorrent Expanse – Enter The Misanthropocene Review
It is probably not interesting to you to know that each time I thought about starting this review, I wanted to start with the line “music is music” but my brain kept immediately jumping to …
Plasmodulated – An Ocean Ov Putrid, Stinky, Vile, Disgusting Hell Review
An Ocean ov Putrid, Stinky, Vile, Disgusting Hell: the title of Plasmodulated’s debut full-length AND, if you can believe it, Old Man Hotz’ exact nickname in college. While fitting descriptors for each, it’s also what …
Blast Rites: Scalp – Not Worthy Of Human Compassion Review
[Cover art by Ricardo Bettazzoni] I bet you were expecting Albert Pecans, or whatever that idiot’s name is, but he’s not the only one who listens to grind around here. Sure, he’s the only one …
Grayceon – Then The Darkness Review
Going into this, I suppose I ought to acknowledge that I’m pretty much a Grayceon mark. The sounds that this trio makes, they get my brain a-sizzle. I have reviewed, with almost embarrassing frequency, Grayceon …
Blast Rites: Sulfuric Cautery – Killing Spree Review
If you’re one of those poor, unfortunate souls who can’t get into grindcore because “it’s just nonstop blasting and grunts” and “the songs fly by so fast it all blurs together,” then… well, Sulfuric Cautery …
Castrator – Coronation Of The Grotesque Review
[Cover art by Jon Zig] Despite forming in 2013, this NYC-by-way-of-global members quartet didn’t fire off their debut, Defiled In Oblivion, until 2022. Rather than continue to roll with a slow build, they’ve struck while …
Deliquesce – Saviour / Enslaver Review
Melbourne’s Deliquesce debuted with monstrous intent on 2023’s Cursed with Malevolence, an album so stuffed with brutal/technical death goodness that you’d have thought they were flies on the wall for the Pierced from Within sessions. …